Yet spare the dead and at the utmost dare

DMI number:

22419

First Line:

Yet spare the dead and at the utmost dare

Last Line:

And grudged not any for they helped to praise

Poem Genre / Form:

Answer/reply and Couplet

Themes:

Fame, Poetry / literature / writing[satire], and Virtue / vice

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And yet believe me good as well as ill

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To you gave sense good humour and a poet

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Answer To/Answered By

Comments:

First Line:

But I must write or burst my gall overflows

Last Line:

Who whispers smut to thy consenting ear

Relationship:

By the same hand as

Comments:

Content/Publication

Title:

Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]

Page No(s):

p.53

Poem Title:

[No title]

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed